To Boldly Grow - Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard

A love-letter to the unexpected delights (and occasional despair) of so-called "first-hand food"--meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the world around us. To Boldly Grow is "part memoir, part how-to guide and wholly delightful" (Washington Post).

When intrepid eater and self-described "crappy gardener" Tamar Haspel and her husband move from Manhattan to two wooded Cape Cod acres, they decide to adopt a more ac­tive approach to their diet--raising chickens, growing tomatoes, foraging for mushrooms, and hunting their own meat. They have more ambition than practical know-how, but that's not about to stop them.

As she ventures farther into first-hand food, Haspel learns to rely less on experts (after all, they can make anything grow) and more on her own ingenuity and creativity. Filled with practical tips and hard-won wisdom, To Boldly Grow brings us along with Haspel as she goes from cluelessness to competence, learning what foods the landscape has to offer and discovering that a direct connec­tion to what we eat can utterly change the way we think about our diet--and ourselves.

About the author

Tamar Haspel writes the James Beard Award-winning Washington Post column Unearthed, which tackles food from every angle: agriculture, nutrition, obesity, the food environment, and DIY. She's also written for Discover, National Geographic's The Plate, Vox, Slate, Eater, Fortune, and Edible Cape Cod.
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Product details

• Authors: Tamar Haspel
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9780593419557
• ISBN: 978-0-593-41955-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Diaries, letters & journals, Memoirs, GARDENING / Techniques, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Specialized gardening methods, Food & society, Cultural studies: food and society, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Specialised gardening methods